Literary Magazines focused on Undergraduate Writers

Adroit Journal
A  literary magazine run entirely by high school and college students. Adroint publishes poetry, fiction, flash fiction, art/photography, and cross-genre works with separate submissions for "adults" and those "under the age of 21."

Allegheny Review
Only accepts submissions from currently enrolled undergraduates (which could include dual-enrolled high school students). This will link to their temporary web site - their way-cool site crashed. Stay tuned for updates.

The Blue Route
An online magazine of undergraduate fiction and poetry, published biannually by Windener University.

Catfish Creek
Poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction journal from Loras College. Any student currently registered in an undergraduate program is eligible to submit writing.

First Inkling
A publication of writing from students in accredited colleges or universities at the community college, undergrad, graduate, or post doctorate level around the world.

Literary Laundry
An online publication of poetry, prose, and drama. Each issue the editors select works written by undergraduates for outstanding award as well as cash prizes.

North Central ReviewThe North Central Review is one of only a handful of literary journals publishing exclusively the writings and works of undergraduate students. The North Central Review considers all genres, including short fiction, poetry, drama, creative nonfiction, and mixed genre pieces. Submission deadlines Oct 15 and Feb 15.

The Oval
The Oval is an undergraduate-run, non-profit annual literary journal at the University of Montana. They accept previously unpublished poetry, prose, and visual art by currently enrolled undergraduates nationwide.

Pegasus
A regional journal, focused only on Georgia writers who are of high school age or who are freshman or sophomores in Georgia colleges.

Polaris
The undergraduate journal of arts and literature of Ohio Northern University is now accepts submissions for poetry, fiction, visual art, and nonfiction only from undergraduate students worldwide.

Prairie Margins
Prairie Margins is an undergraduate publication at Bowling Green State University. Our reading dates are between September and December. Accepts submissions of unpublished poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.

A River & Sound Review
If you are between the ages 14 and 21 and enjoy writing, please submit your poems, stories, or essays to be considered for reading at an upcoming live production. "Writers may submit up to three poems, or an essay or story up to 1,000 words in length. Selection of the work will be based on the literary merit of the submission and its appropriateness for our program. Due to our production schedule and limited staff, it may take us up to three months to notify you of our acceptance of your submission."

The Susquehanna Review
Susquehanna University's nationally distributed student-run annual literary magazine contains riginal ficiton, creative nonfiction, and poetry by undergraduate writers currently attending an accredited university in the United States.

Zaum
a literary and art magazine providing college students a venue for publishing their  poetry, prose, fiction and visual artwork. The magazine is distributed and produced by students at Sonoma State University in California.

I Confess: an online course on confessional poetry

Troubled marriages, unstable minds, dysfunctional families—in this workshop we’ll write our secrets, our confessions, studying the works of Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Robert Lowell, Sharon Olds. We will study how to write what is intimate, how to remove the mask. Each week we will look at example poems from the confessional poetry movement and complete writing exercises to implement what we’ve learned.   

 

Register for this Workshop

Class size: 12
Dates: May 6-31, 2013
Price: $65 

The Flying Elephants Short Story Prize

from the website:

The Flying Elephants Short-Story Prize is meant to showcase the work of outstanding short-story writers, published or emerging. We are delighted to announce that the Judge of the Flying Elephants Prize is world-renowned author Edwidge Danticat, and that the Prize Fund is sponsored by Gregory Colbert, the artist and nature advocate behind “Ashes and Snow.”    AndWeWereHungry welcomes your entries!

• Deadline: Tuesday, April 30, 2013, 11:59 p.m. ET.
• Short-Story Length: No length restrictions, but longer manuscripts (8,000–10,000 words) or shorter manuscripts (less than 2,000 words) will have to be truly exceptional to be shortlisted.
• Entry Fee: None.
• Eligibility: Writers must eighteen-years of age or older, and short stories must be original and previously unpublished.
• Theme or Prompt:  “And we were hungry…,” or “Hunger.” For isn’t it, to quote the late Ray Bradbury, hunger or “lack that gives us inspiration?”
  
• Grand Prize Theme: Consideration for the grand prize is reserved for stories that connect the theme with nature or the natural world.
• Entry Instructions: A writer may submit two (2) short stories. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, and if you need to withdraw a story, you can do so directly via our online submission submissions manager.  Entry of a novel excerpt is permissible, provided it stands alone as a short story.
• How to Submit: Submissions accepted online only. You can submit your original unpublished short stories here.
• Prizes: One grand prize winner ($2,000 + publication ), three finalists ($1,000 each + publication) and eight runners-ups (publication only).
• Judge: Edwidge Danticat

We hope submissions will embody a wild diversity of perspective, voice, and style; and suspect that the most powerful submissions will wear the stated theme lightly while presenting us with something new to discover. We encourage work from writers of all backgrounds.

Poetry Prompt: Definitions (from Poets & Writers)

Choose any word from the dictionary and read its definitions. Write a poem using only the language of these definitions. Try repeating them in different combinations and using line break to create unexpected phrases. Experiment with how far you can push the limits of the language you're working with. Use the word you've chosen as the title of the poem.

from the website

Two Volunteer Positions Open at Relief Journal

from their website:

 

Join us as part of the Relief Team!

Dear <<First Name>>,

Relief and our sister publication, The Midnight Diner, run, to the extent that they do at all, on the cold sweat and caffeinated blood of our many volunteers. If you want to help us do what we do (and maybe even do it better), we can probably find a place for you. We always need bloggers and reviewers, and sometimes we have an odd task that needs concentrated attention.

We have an immediate need to fill two positions. Our volunteer Managing Editor and Marketing Director positions are both open and in need of qualified individuals to ensure the steady growth of the journal.

Managing Editor
We need someone who wants to see our small Christian literary venture become a somewhat larger and thriving venue for the best in Christian literature. We need someone who has administrative talents and gifts to keep the rest of us right-brainers on task and on schedule. Our managing editor will love to work with people and will help create a supportive, productive volunteer community online. The managing editor will provide essential administrative support for the coordination of the various branches of ccPublishing NFP.

Marketing Director
The marketing director will be the point person for strategizing and implementing creative promotion of Relief and possibly, on occasion, The Midnight Diner. This position is key to growing our subscription and submission base and thus keeping the organization sustainable. We operate on the Internet equivalent of a shoestring, so the operative word here is creative; this may include ad swaps, guest blogging, conference materials, social media and e-mail marketing, etc.

A complete description of either postion is available on the Relief website or as a PDF below.

Marketing Director Description
Managing Editor Description

Cheers,

Brad Fruhauff
Editor-in-Chief

Harpur Palate Call for Submissions

We are now calling for submissions for our upcoming issue 13.1! The theme for this issue is country living. We are looking for essays, stories, and poems that take us away from city skyscrapers and closer to the eclectic American countryside. We want to be taken to the apex of an Adirondack Mountain, to the front porch of Aunt Bernice's goat farm, to the bayous of Mississippi. Tell us what it was like to plow a field in the 1900's, what it feels like to milk a cow with your hands. And while you're at it, we've always marveled at the art of fly fishing.

We want to see more than the archetypal moonshiners who drive beat up pick-up trucks, and men who play fiddles that are lost in their beards, so give us more than “hillbilly” stereotypes and “hick” dialogue. Give us essays that will haunt us, stories with raw characters that we cannot forget, and poems that hum with nature. Bring the sounds of the American country alive and surprise us by what we find there.

The deadline is April 15. General submission guidelines apply. Check our blog for more details!<http://harpurpalate.blogspot.com/>

Click here to submit electronically<https://harpurpalate.submittable.com/submit>. 

Stony Brook Short Fiction Prize for Undergraduate Writers

Stony Brook

State University of New York
Short Fiction Prize
Only undergraduates enrolled full-time in American and Canadian universities and colleges for the academic year 2012-2013 are eligible for the prize.
Deadline: Postmark March 1, 2013

Guidelines

Eligibility

undergradates enrolled full time in United States and Canadian universities and colleges for the academic year 2012-13 are eligible. This Prize has traditionally encouraged submissions from students with an Asian background, but we urge all students to enter.

Guidelines

• Entrant's identity and academic institution will not be revealed to judges.
• Submissions of no more than 7,500 words should be typed on 8.5-by-11-inch paper.
• Include one cover sheet with the title of the work only. On a second cover sheet, include your name, permanent address, telephone number and email address. Do not include your name on any pages of your story.
• All entries must be accompanied by proof of current undergraduate enrollment, such as a photocopy of a grade transcript, a class schedule or payment receipt showing your full-time status.
• The institution's name and address must be clear. No fax or electronic submissions will be accepted.
• Manuscripts will not be returned. Submission assumes the right of Stony Brook to publish the winning story on its Web site.
• The winning short story will automatically be considered for publication in The Southampton Review, the literary journal published by the Stony Brook Southampton MFA program in Writing and Literature.

Deadline

March 1, 2013. All applications postmarked after the deadline will be returned unopened. The winner and runners-up will be notified in June 2013.

Mail submissions to:

John Westermann
Director, Stony Brook $1,000 Short Fiction Prize
Stony Brook Southampton
MFA in Writing and Literature
239 Montauk Highway
Southampton, New York 11968